Reloading in an apartment, few questions

[gnihcraes]

Not much to add from other posts, reloaded in an apartment for a year or so. Mounted everything to a cheap wood folding conference table you can buy at any office supply. Not the greatest thing, but worked.

Vibratory tumbler might be noisy enough to bug some people, depends more on how thin the walls are? I've never had any issues with the vibratory tumbler, but would be sure its on a solid surface during the hours you're not there to monitor it. Also, lock it down in some way, I found mine once laying on the floor making all kinds of racket, brass and corn cobb everywhere. Whoops! I put a T-Handle allen wrench through a hole on the base into the workbench to keep it on the bench now.

[Irving]

Surprisingly, the walls are pretty thick here. It'd probably be okay, but I'd want to hear it in person. I've only seen them on youtube videos.

[DFBrews]

Not much to add from other posts, reloaded in an apartment for a year or so. Mounted everything to a cheap wood folding conference table you can buy at any office supply. Not the greatest thing, but worked.

Vibratory tumbler might be noisy enough to bug some people, depends more on how thin the walls are? I've never had any issues with the vibratory tumbler, but would be sure its on a solid surface during the hours you're not there to monitor it. Also, lock it down in some way, I found mine once laying on the floor making all kinds of racket, brass and corn cobb everywhere. Whoops! I put a T-Handle allen wrench through a hole on the base into the workbench to keep it on the bench now.

Haha! I have to tumble at work it is to loud in my apt. and it is nice to not have to deal with any dust in the house.

[SA Friday]

Do NOT allow your child near you or the tumbler or the separator, and separate outside. The majority of primers use lead Styphnate in their mixtures. The dust that dirties the cleaning media is mostly carbon, but has very high amounts of lead in it. It's where the majority of exposure to lead in shooting comes from. A grown adult, even with extreme exposure to this, won't get to levels of poisoning; 40 ppm. Anything over 11ppm is considered high for an adult. 9 ppm is considered dangerous levels for a child.

I tested 21 ppm at one point (from shooting indoors at a range with bad air circulation) and could feel the health ramifications. It took a year, but my system eventually flushed it out. Children don't have the same capabilities. Don't mess with that stuff in the apartment, period. Do it outside. I did my separation on the porch, and ran the tumbler there too.

[Irving]

Thanks for the tip. Is the separation when you open the door at the bottom of the tumbler and turn it back on to separate the brass from the media? I guess I'll learn about that part when I get all my stuff together and actually start. That could be a year from now though.

[SA Friday]

Thanks for the tip. Is the separation when you open the door at the bottom of the tumbler and turn it back on to separate the brass from the media? I guess I'll learn about that part when I get all my stuff together and actually start. That could be a year from now though.

Yes, or pour the brass and media through a sifter into a bucket or pouring the stuff into one of the rolling sitters. It all aerates the particles.

[Irving]

This brings me to another question.

I don't really care about how the outside of the brass looks, but I'm under the impression that you want the inside of the case to be clean and a tumbler is the most cost/time effective solution. Is that correct? Isn't it also supposed to be easier on your dies as well?

[DFBrews]

This brings me to another question.

I don't really care about how the outside of the brass looks, but I'm under the impression that you want the inside of the case to be clean and a tumbler is the most cost/time effective solution. Is that correct? Isn't it also supposed to be easier on your dies as well?

You want the outside clean to avoid messing up the die's with straight wall pistol the inside does contact the die.
Some people say it effects pressure but it does not really matter from what i have read.

[SA Friday]

This brings me to another question.

I don't really care about how the outside of the brass looks, but I'm under the impression that you want the inside of the case to be clean and a tumbler is the most cost/time effective solution. Is that correct? Isn't it also supposed to be easier on your dies as well?

I've found the opposite to be true. I could give a rats ass how the inside looks as long as it's cleaned of material and carbon. I want the outside as clean as possible and as free of media dust as possible, especially pistol rounds. An example is brass at has been reloaded with titegroup. It burns hot and Blackens the inside of the case permanently. Doesn't mean anything. Shoots just fine reload after reload. Crud on the outside of the case is what tears up the dies.

[Irving]

So either way, dirty brass is hard on dies right?